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# Assorted Readings on a Monday Evening
- URL: https://mereorthodoxy.com/assorted-readings-on-a-monday-evening/
- Published: 2009-05-05T03:50:58.000Z
- Updated: 2026-04-20T21:14:03.000Z
- Description: Assorted Readings on a Monday Evening
- Author: Mere Orthodoxy
- Tags: Matthew Lee Anderson, Uncategorized

I haven't had many blog-length thoughts of late, but here are a few of the things I've read recently and found interesting: 

[The Ten Most Pressing Issues For Evangelical Theology Today](http://mpjensen.blogspot.com/2009/05/10-most-pressing-issues-for-evangelical.html?ref=mereorthodoxy.com). Click through to see the order. While I agree with the bulk of Jensen's list, I would argue that a few of his items don't quite belong (election? apologetics?). Additionally, Jensen misses the doctrine of sanctification and the spiritual disciplines, which evangelicals are starting to recover after long neglecting them. 

[The End of Conservatism](http://www.heritage.org/Research/Thought/hl1120.cfm?ref=mereorthodoxy.com#%5Fftn9)? Yes, just like the last time conservatism ended.

[How David Beats Goliath](http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/05/11/090511fa%5Ffact%5Fgladwell?currentPage=all&ref=mereorthodoxy.com): Malcolm Gladwell doing his Malcolm Gladwell thing--finding unities out of seemingly unrelated stories and fields.

[Thoughts on Thoughts on Machiavelli: The Inconvenient Truth of Modernity](http://www.firstthings.com/postmodernconservative/?p=427&ref=mereorthodoxy.com). I've re-read this twice, and I still only understand 25% of it. But what I do understand is very, very good.